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Still a poor analogy. With feudalism, people had no choice. Now people have a choice but due to social pressure make terrible choices. No system can save people from their own short-sightedness, the best case is a system where those who want to choose an alternative can do so, and the Internet provides that.

And there is always the option of creating a puppet account on facebook and keeping any sensitive information anonymous.



People under feudalism had a choice until they didn't.




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